Robbery suspect's request for bond modification denied

An employee of the pharmacy at Magruder Hospital in Port Clinton called 911 and described an armed robbery that had just taken place to a police dispatcher on Tuesday, Feb. 6.
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Clark Sams, suspected of complicity in the armed robbery of the pharmacy at Magruder Hospital, appeared in Ottawa County Municipal Court on Wednesday for an arraignment hearing.(Photo: Jon Stinchcomb/News Herald)Buy Photo

PORT CLINTON - The two men arrested in connection with last week’s armed robbery of the pharmacy at Magruder Hospital appeared in Ottawa County Municipal Court for additional arraignment hearings on Wednesday.

Joshua N. Trapp, 35, of Clyde, and Clark H. Sams, 46, of Oak Harbor, were arrested and charged with multiple felonies Thursday, Feb. 8, two days after the robbery was reported on Tuesday, Feb. 6.

Both are being held in the Ottawa County Detention Facility with bond set at $1 million and no 10 percent option following their initial arraignments last Friday.

On Wednesday, Sams and his court-appointed attorney, John Klaehn, requested to be released from jail on his own recognizance.

“(Sams) is a lifelong resident of Ottawa County. He has no criminal record. We would ask for an (own recognizance) bond. He has no failures to appear,” Klaehn told the court at the hearing.

Magistrate Louis Wargo, of Ottawa County Municipal Court, denied Sams request for the bond modification, however, he noted that the matter may be reviewed further at a preliminary hearing scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Friday.

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Joshua Trapp, suspected of robbing the pharmacy at Magruder Hospital at gunpoint, appeared in Ottawa County Municipal Court on Wednesday for an arraignment hearing.(Photo: Jon Stinchcomb/News Herald)

Trapp also appeared in court on Wednesday and requested a court-appointed attorney. Trapp told the court that he is not employed, has no source of income and owns no assets that could be sold.

Wargo granted Trapp’s request for a court-appointed attorney, finding that he could not obtain counsel on his own.

Trapp is set to appear in court again next week at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21, with his attorney present, at which time the case will be scheduled for a preliminary hearing.

Trapp is facing one count of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony, and one count of theft of drugs, a fourth-degree felony. Sams was charged with complicity on both counts, a first-degree and a fourth-degree felony, respectively.